Friends plan rose memorial in another tribute to Liberty

FRIENDS of teenager Liberty Baker, who was killed on her way to school on Monday, want to plant a rose in her memory.

They say they have found one called the Lady Liberty and plan to plant it around a memorial bench they hope will be donated.

On Thursday night a group of her friends released 50 blue and purple balloons to remember the 14-year-old Henry Box School student, who was killed at about 8am after a car mounted the kerb in Curbridge Road.

Last November, Liberty, from Witney, had been involved in a campaign to save the Witney Hub youth centre, where friends gathered to remember her and release the balloons.

Perry Kerslake, 18, said Liberty would be missed by everyone who knew her.

He said: “We were very close friends. I knew her for a year-and-a-half and she was always smiling and willing to help out.

“She got lots of signatures to save the youth centre, in fact she got more than anyone else. She was always there when you needed her.

“If I had to say one thing which would sum Libety up it would be: ‘Smile and the whole world will smile with you.’ Everyone smiled when she did.”

Nicole Smith, 18, who helped to organise the event, said releasing balloons in Liberty’s favourite colour was a fitting way to remember her.

Ipsoregulated

This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standardards Organisations's Editors' Code of Practice. If you have a compaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then please contact the editor here. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here